WRITER

Firaq Gorakhpuri

1896 - 1982

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Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Firaq Gorakhpuri has received more than 335,303 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Firaq Gorakhpuri is the 3,656th most popular writer, the 457th most popular biography from India and the 71st most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Firaq Gorakhpuri ranks 3,656 out of 7,302. Before him are Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Samih al-Qasim, Otfrid of Weissenburg, Farrukhi Sistani, Ilya Ilf, and Johan Herman Wessel. After him are Guillaume Musso, Richard Yates, Tevfik Fikret, Sylvia Nasar, Marta Kauffman, and Olympia Fulvia Morata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Firaq Gorakhpuri ranks 152. Before him are Nobuko Yoshiya, Carlos P. Garcia, Árpád Weisz, Joseph Schildkraut, Friedrich Sämisch, and Manuel A. Odría. After him are William Cameron Menzies, Xue Yue, Philippe Étancelin, Vilho Niittymaa, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, and George Burns. Among people deceased in 1982, Firaq Gorakhpuri ranks 143. Before him are Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Carlos Vidal, Bernhard Rogge, Douglas Bader, Konrad Wolf, and Karol Borsuk. After him are Juhan Aavik, Gábor Szabó, Gunnar Eriksson, Paolo Monti, Federico Moreno Torroba, and Lauri Virtanen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Firaq Gorakhpuri ranks 457 out of 1,861. Before him are Fathima Beevi (1927), Fatima Sheikh (1831), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Chand Bibi (1550). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Anupam Kher (1955), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), and Shammi Kapoor (1931).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Firaq Gorakhpuri ranks 71. Before him are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), and Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Faizi (1547), Mahadev Desai (1892), Arundhati Roy (1961), and Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887).

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